Consciousness and the Invention of Morel

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Perogamvros, Lampros ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolfo Bioy Casares; Brain reading; Consciousness; Dreaming; Morel; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLASSIFIER; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGERY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MACHINE LEARNING; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RETINA IMAGE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84933671124     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00061     Document Type: Article

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